5 Character Flaws That Are Destroying America's Future

Townhall.com ^ | June 2, 2009 | John Hawkins

[TChris]

Merriam-Webster: Ain't

aint

One entry found.

 

Main Entry: ain't

Pronunciation: \ˈānt\

Etymology:  contraction of are not

Date: 1749

 

1 : am not : are not : is not

2 : have not : has not

3 : do not : does not : did not —used in some varieties of Black English

 

======================================================= They're both bad english.

[petercooper]

bttt

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Sorry to tell you BB, but "irregardless" is NOT a word. But you knew that, I know ;>)

[Badabing Badablonde]

Well, my dad always used to say that “f*** and s*** are words too, but that doesn’t mean intelligent people should be using them.” :-)

[Betis70]

tldr (too long, didn’t read, a response I’ve seen on some internet forums)

Oh wait that is one of the problems isn’t it?

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Spot On. He nails it on the head—The prescription is simple—a drastic depression followed by massive inflation and decent into a 3rd world state. The government will de-generate into a Lawyerocracy where lawyers are a new nobility with special rights and stores for goods and the rest of the people are reduced to worker ants just trying to get by. A few hundred years of this will burn out the poison put in the political body by the Hippies and Liberals. Maybe then, America can rebuild.

[Nosterrex]

I cannot disagree with any of those reasons, but I would add another one, namely, lack of religious education. Whether it is because of the rise of secularism, pop-psychology,happy-clappy churches, or all of the above, many have abandoned Biblical Christianity for so-called spirituality. This is the fruit of all those five reasons applied to religious life. Spirituality is just another name for hedonism.

[NEMDF]

Yes...”irregardless”... shudder.

[princess leah]

My daughter actually has a good gov’t class teacher in a California State University college...they actually read THE FEDERALIST PAPERS for their assignments and she told me that the original papers were printed in regular newspapers! Then she said “can you imagine if these were printed in our papers today - most people wouldn’t even understand what they meant!” So, there are a few good professors out there!

[MrB]

All summed up as

“Rejecting Biblical Christian values”

[Don W]

I’m with you on that!

The author makes several valid points, but undermines his argument with word misuse.

The word “irregardless” is “irredundant”! It’s like using “decimated” (reduced by 10%) for “destroyed”: it shows wilful ignorance and mis-education.

These people claim to be educated, yet don’t know that words have specific and certain meanings?

/rant mode.

[ConservativeWarrior]

(Yes, I am shouting! Conservatives are deaf, dumb, and blind.)

Unfortunately, no one can hear you because you're shouting from your home(school).

Why don't you grow a set and join the rest of us who are fighting the war in the public square? Hiding in your home isn't a winning tactic.

[wintertime]

Hiding in your home isn’t a winning tactic.
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And...What do you suggest?

[elk]

Has anyone heard of read John Taylor Gatto's Weapons of Mass Instruction?

If you have, you'll know EXACTLY what our problem is, or, at least as BIG, GIGANTIC chunk of it.

[Cronos]

Entitlement and Short term attention spans are plaguing public-school educated kids. Why pass people who can’t read? Exams should be more tougher — if kids fail a year, so be it, they either wise up and study harder and become better persons or they wise up and drop out and learn a trade that will serve them better and make them useful members of society instead of people with no skill.